Traces the nine-year history of Geraldine Cannon's ongoing legal battle, based on accusations of age and sex discrimination, to gain admission to medical school in the state of Illinois. (JBM)

Hispanic women face problems in developing leadership or mentor relationships due to conflicts within their culture, conflicts with the majority culture, and educational/financial barriers. Without a faculty member to mentor the Hispanic female student, graduate study may be difficult or impossible to achieve. (DF)

Evaluates the Israeli educational system. Concludes that a separate and unequal education is the prevailing order for the non-Jewish population, and that in the Jewish sector integration among Ashkenazis and Sephardis is minimal. (CMG)

Eighteen black students were asked their perceptions of life on a predominantly white university campus, Syracuse University (New York). Data from interviews were analyzed as well as accounts in the campus newspaper during the 5-year period 1988-1993 and interviews with four administrators who worked with minority students in an academic support…

There is a need for more precise descriptions of the claims to truth of standardized tests, of their interpretive authority, and of the limits of understanding which are reached through their processes. Typically minority students who score poorly on such tests do because their schools fail to connect with them. Pedagogy, therefore, must somehow…

Research work of professional social scientists and women's rights groups has revealed the existence of sex discrimination in American higher education. (Author)

The court refused to declare differences in per pupil district expenditures unconstitutional. Reformers must now look to the State courts for change in the present system of school finance. (Author/WM)

The Supreme Court is facing the question of whether unequal, segregated education -- outlawed in the South -- is beyond the reach of the constitution if it occurs in the North. (Author)

When denied a position in favor of a minority with lower scores and grades, some White males complain that they have achieved these scores and grades through their own efforts. A variety of factors which influence scores and grades a person achieves are taken into consideration. The least of the factors is shown to be the person's effort. (JN)

Presents an historical perspective of the education of Black Americans. Since World War II, strides have been made in Black enrollment and participation at all levels of education, but Black Americans have not yet achieved complete access to one of the most cherished of America's dreams and promises--education. (Author)

Discusses the social impact of the community college in the context of functionalist and conflict theories of social stratification and education. Reviews research indicating that community colleges track students into occupations commensurate with their socio-economic status and studies demonstrating the increasing diversity in occupational…

Uses the example of Reading Recovery to examine how remedial reading programs can function to preserve the status quo by protecting the structures of schooling, which so effectively serve the needs of some students better than others and thus so effectively restrict access to social goods to members of dominant groups. (SR)

Argues that computers are a medium through which different styles of scientific thought can be observed. Presents cases of women whose learning styles differ from the way that programing and problem solving in computer-related activities are taught. Concludes that technological developments involving object-oriented programing have created an…

School exclusion is problematic in all developing countries. To achieve UNICEF's "Education for All," there must be simple, easily explicable organizational structures. The article rethinks the where and when of school organization to propose a spatial concept for a nonexcluding school that is applicable to any setting. (SM)